When I was an art student at Jose State University back in the 1980s, I took a class called ‘Billboard Art.’ We met every Friday for the whole day and at the beginning of the semester we each presented an idea for what was to become a full blown, hand painted billboard to be placed in downtown San Jose, thanks to the generosity of the local billboard company. My father had found a box of these crazy psychedelic colored sunglasses; and for a while as a quasi-performance art piece, I would carry them around,ask random strangers to put them on and I would take photos of these people wearing them. I was using the word ‘copacetic’ a lot at the time, and my drawing was chosen to be one of the ones that was actually put up in downtown San Jose. Funny thing is the art reviewer for the San Jose Mercury News got it all wrong when he wrote something about my piece being a feminist statement against billboards depicting women dressed in black velvet drinking whiskey.